Kids, see what a camera, a blog, and lots of connections can do for you!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/fa...ss&oref=slogin
Before the Image Fades
Before the Image Fades
BY 7 p.m. on Tuesday, the
line of fashionable people trying to get into the Danziger Projects
gallery on West 26th Street to see a show by Scott Schuman, a
photographer who takes pictures of fashionable people, had reached 10th
Avenue and passed beneath a billboard that presumably was intended to
tweak them on their behinds.
?Fashion and art are a scrawny couple,? read the billboard (a
running gag on the neighborhood galleries by the French artist Patrick
Mimran).
Harumph.
Tell that to the kid with the sunglasses, the buffalo plaid jacket
and tight jeans tucked into white high-tops, or the pair of older men
(in their 30s) in bespoke suits with coordinating tattersall patterns
and flipped collars, flicking cigarettes with impatience at the crowd.
Since Danziger opened its show for Mr. Schuman, known for the
on-the-street portraits of guests at runway shows that he posts for
public commentary on a blog called The Sartorialist, skeptics have been
in the minority.
Mr. Schuman, who quit a career running a fashion showroom to begin
his life as The Sartorialist two years ago, has developed a cult
following, with more than 50,000 visitors to his site on busy days. He
also works for Style.com and writes a
monthly page for GQ. Danziger had sold about a dozen prints by
Wednesday, beginning at $1,200 ? a bargain by Chelsea standards.
?I haven?t sold anything for $1,200 in 10 years,? said James Danziger, the gallery owner.
Mr. Schuman, who is 40, said he was not entirely surprised by the
reception. His method of spontaneously capturing the style of a moment,
and in relation to its setting, could be roughly thought of as the
fashion world equivalent of August Sander?s encyclopedic portraits of
the German population in the early 20th century. Even in the
homogenized world of fashion, there are types and variations of style
from city to city, as Mr. Schuman?s portraits depict.
?I still see very much a difference when I am shooting in London,
Paris or Milan,? he said. ?We are still very unique creatures with very
unique cultures that I am sure are crossing over a little more, but
they are not as homogenized as you would think.?
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